I read the books this year because I wanted to feel pain, basically, and I wanted to be justified in disliking Harry Potter. I was not disappointed. However, I still don't understand how the fuck the end of the book worked. It was so harebrained and convoluted and sloppy as fuck that I don't know what actually happened. Am I stupid or was it a bad ending? And what the fuck happened? How did they actually kill Voldemort?
Oh wait I just forgot you left off how Harry's able to fake being dead. His coded-as-Nazi nemesis' parents are there, and the mom comes over to check that he's REALLY dead. She asks Harry if her son is alive and when he says yes, she lies to Voldemort.
Edit: also also, in her fucking shitty Cursed Child play where someone tries to revive Voldemort, she accidentally makes the case why reconciliation doesn't necessarily work and why it's important to destroy a monarchy to the root but in her neoliberal imagination it's just a whoopsie daisy, that ain't too good kinda thing.
Gahhh.